Risk analysis by means of a QRA approach on a LPG cylinder filling installation

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 77-84

  Dormohammadi, Ali ^a   Zarei, Esmaeil ^b   Delkhosh, Mohammad Bagher ^b   Gholami, Ali ^b  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NEYSHABUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Individual risk; LPG installation; Quantitative risk assessment; Societal risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894078573     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.11623     Document Type: Article

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